Contact lost with Insat 4A for half an hour
02 Jan 2007
Chennai: One of the India's communication satellites Insat 4A lost earth lock around 4pm on 2 January, 2007, disrupting services.
According to Indian Space and Research Organisation (ISRO) the problem occurred owing to some solar disturbances and one of the momentum wheels used for stabilising the spacecraft got switched off.
Immediately
ISRO engineers at 'master control facility' at Hassan
swung in to action, setting right the problem in thirty
minutes, restoring services.
